In the Amphitheater at Medgar Evers College | DIRECTIONS
Beford Avenue between Crown and Empire (map).
In the event of rain the show will be rescheduled for Thursday, July 19.
Call 718.417.7362 for additional information.

Presented in partnership with the National Black
Programming Consortium, IFC.com, New York magazine &
Council Member Letitia James. Hip Hop Revolution
Hip-hop Revolution is a forty eight minute documentary looking at the intergration
of hip-hop culture with state of emergency politics in the 1980’s, and
it’s role as a tool in revolution in post-apartheid South Africa. The 1980’s
was the time of heroic youth uprising on the Cape Flats, together with limited
freedom of expression. Given, the culture of repression in South Africa at the
time, the hip-hop sub-culture was a form of ventilation to youth on the Cape
Flats and elsewhere in the country. Hip-hop also politically informed many young
people in South Africa. It is believed that hip-hop in South Africa started on
the Cape Flats, my film therefore focuses on the Cape Flats. It also briefly
examines, via the experiences of central characters the apartheid Group Areas
Act with the forced removal of families from District Six into ghetto housing.
The film also reflects the socio-political situation in South Africa at present,
with particular focus on the current economic disparities between a rich minority
and a poor majority.